Kategorie: Frontend

The HTML is rerendered after click and displays the chosen content.

We use a stateful variable.

The stateful variable (here, a boolean) is called ‚condition‘ 😉 :

const [condition, setCondition] = useState(false);

The #useEffect method to react on variable state change:

useEffect(() => {
    ...
},[condition]);

The methods for the buttons:

const handleClickSomething01 = () => setCondition(true);
const handleClickSomething02 = () => setCondition(false);

The returned HTML:

if (condition === true) {
    return (
        <div>
            <Button variant="contained" 
                    color="primary" 
                    onClick={handleClickSomething02}>
                Primary
            </Button>
            <Button variant="contained" 
                    color="secondary" 
                    onClick={handleClickSomething01}>
                Secondary
            </Button>CONDITION fullfilled
        </div>
    );
} else {
    return (
        <div>
            <Button variant="contained" 
                    color="primary" 
                    onClick={handleClickSomething02}>
                Primary
            </Button>
            <Button variant="contained" 
                    color="secondary" 
                    onClick={handleClickSomething01}>
                Secondary
            </Button>CONDITION not fulfilled
        </div>
    );
}

You will notice that this example uses duplicated code (sort of, a few details differ).
Why did I do this?
I have debugged so many unmaintainable Frontends during the last two decades and nearly always the obstacles where too many detailed conditions in the HTML.

Instead, by using IF/ELSE and clearly depict the HTML without conditional renderings within, the Code will be easier to maintain in the long run.

Of course, this is my personal experience and also a matter of Clean Code paradigms.
In some cases, am using inline conditions, inside the HTML lines, too. But as we Architects like to say: IT DEPENDS 😉